Why Is Swingman Depth Important?

[PM5K]

Now this guy sees that light.

Congrats.

Oh? I thought you meant that we should have signed Devin Brown... I mean I thought Timvp meant that we should have signed Devin Brown, which PM5K disagrees with, but PM5K does agree that the roster should be filled out...

[Kori Ellis]

Manu shouldn't be resting, the season just ing started, what kind of pussy is he? TP is averaging the same ammount of minutes that he has for pretty much his entire career, and he's what, twenty-three? Tell him to get some nipple patches for energy like Timmy...

Pop has said repeatedly that Manu would have been resting if Finley/Barry were healthy. He has (had) a bad thigh bruise and they wanted to sit him.

[Marcus Bryant]

Manu shouldn't be resting, the season just ing started, what kind of pussy is he? TP is averaging the same ammount of minutes that he has for pretty much his entire career, and he's what, twenty-three? Tell him to get some nipple patches for energy like Timmy...

eh? He had a thigh injury which clearly limited his elevation. He's been playing hurt. Let him rest.

[PM5K]

Pop has said repeatedly that Manu would have been resting if Finley/Barry were healthy. He has (had) a bad thigh bruise and they wanted to sit him.

He freaking wears football pads! Maybe we should get him a helmet too... Manu has played fine, get him a pair of nipple patches and he'll be good to go, get the whole team nipple patches...

[Bruno]

With the new rules regarding naming your active roster one hour prior to tip off, perhaps teams will now be able to utilize their entire 15 man roster in the playoffs.

Anyone know?

If that is the case, that is another HUGE reason the Spurs should have signed a fifth swingman. If someone goes down in the playoffs, the new rules may allow you to sub in a replacement.

Hopefully the Spurs can plug this hole in time.

I think you still have to define a 12 man roster before the playoff.

Would you rather have Beno or a 5th swingman on th roster ?

[timvp]

Oh? I thought you meant that we should have signed Devin Brown... I mean I thought Timvp meant that we should have signed Devin Brown, which PM5K disagrees with, but PM5K does agree that the roster should be filled out...

Tell P5MK to read the first post in the thread again.

[PM5K]

I think you still have to define a 12 man roster before the playoff.

Would you rather have Beno or a 5th swingman on th roster ?

Good question. Beno is a turnover machine, I'd rather see Tony, Nick, Brent, Manu, or Mike bringing the ball up than Beno...

[timvp]

I think you still have to define a 12 man roster before the playoff.

Would you rather have Beno or a 5th swingman on th roster ?

5th swingman. We saw what Beno can do in the playoffs.

It wasn't pretty.

[PM5K]

Tell P5MK to read the first post in the thread again.

I haven't been able to get a hold of him, email and phone calls have gone unanswered, I'll see what I can do...

[T Park]

Latrell Sprewell???

No thanks.

[timvp]

Latrell Sprewell???

No thanks.

He avoids the questions.

Nice.

[PM5K]

Intersetingly though, people talk about developing future talent, I think with time Beno could be better, but he needs that time on the cour during the playoffs to make his mistakes and learn from them...

[2centsworth]

2cents told me to tell you that the regular season sucks and he can't wait until the playoffs.

[Kori Ellis]

Intersetingly though, people talk about developing future talent, I think with time Beno could be better, but he needs that time on the cour during the playoffs to make his mistakes and learn from them...

So you think the Spurs should let him play through his mistakes? Or send him to the D-League to get playing time? Would you play him ahead of NVE?

[PM5K]

2cents told me to tell you that the regular season sucks and he can't wait until the playoffs.

2cents told you to tell who? Should who tell anyone else?

[timvp]

Intersetingly though, people talk about developing future talent, I think with time Beno could be better, but he needs that time on the cour during the playoffs to make his mistakes and learn from them...

I'll teach him.

Sincerley,

Lindsey Hunter

[PM5K]

So you think the Spurs should let him play through his mistakes? Or send him to the D-League to get playing time? Would you play him ahead of NVE?

That's a good point, maybe right now it's time better spent there because he won't play much here. I'd never put him ahead of NVE but I do think he's got talent and I do think he's making some of the same types of rookie mistakes that Tony made but he hasn't had the chance to work through them.

[spurster]

No team can afford to pay players 13-15 multimillion contracts. It's not just a Holt is cheap thing. If you look at your examples, what 13-15 players or 5th swingmen were making more than the min? Arguing that the Spurs should now pay more for the 5th swingman when they never have in the past is absurd.

I don't think it's only a matter of the Spurs being cheap, but also the quality of who will come in and is willing to take on the reserve role. This is shown by Sanders and Scales as the best the Spurs can come up.

[ChumpDumper]

Beno should be in Austin -- and if he can't beat out Derrick Zimmerman, the Spurs should sign Derrick.

[PM5K]

I don't know that our swingman have ever been this old..

[Kori Ellis]

Beno should be in Austin -- and if he can't beat out Derek Zimmerman, the Spurs should sign Derek.

[Marcus Bryant]

No team can afford to pay players 13-15 multimillion contracts. It's not just a Holt is cheap thing. If you look at your examples, what 13-15 players or 5th swingmen were making more than the min? Arguing that the Spurs should now pay more for the 5th swingman when they never have in the past is absurd.

I don't think it's only a matter of the Spurs being cheap, but also the quality of who will come in and is willing to take on the reserve role. This is shown by Sanders and Scales as the best the Spurs can come up.

It's not just that. It's about who is willing to sign a non-guaranteed contract and only stick around for a couple of weeks.

[timvp]

No team can afford to pay players 13-15 multimillion contracts. It's not just a Holt is cheap thing. If you look at your examples, what 13-15 players or 5th swingmen were making more than the min? Arguing that the Spurs should now pay more for the 5th swingman when they never have in the past is absurd.

I don't think it's only a matter of the Spurs being cheap, but also the quality of who will come in and is willing to take on the reserve role. This is shown by Sanders and Scales as the best the Spurs can come up.

Then what is the excuse for not signing Matt Barnes, DerMarr Johnson and all the other cheap, young talent the front office was barred from signing?

[PM5K]

I'd sign a non guaranteed contract...

[Bruno]

5th swingman. We saw what Beno can do in the playoffs.

It wasn't pretty.

He sucks against the best defensive backcourt and he was a rookie.

The matter is that Finley and Barry are quite redondant.
With 4 swingmen, if Bowen is in foul trouble (it happens sometimes), you have nobody to defend on guys like Tmac.
With 5 swingmen, you have only 2 PG : if Tony is out, it will be difficult.

For me you have two matters :

- The lack of a 14th man for the regular season.
- The Fact that our bench swingmen are too similar. maybe we should trade barry ?